As more writers join the call to withdraw from PEN America's abject literary prizes in protest of genocide denialism, I want to say how deeply honored and grateful I am for this act of solidarity with Palestine. As faith without works is dead, so too is poetics, written art.

New interview with poet Rachel Edelman she/they at Southern Review of Books—don’t miss this one! 📚🌊🌊

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Let’s all help out the amazing Birds, LLC Crew!

Levertov recommends kite-flying at protests: it disturbs helicopters (and in our day, drones) making it difficult for them to fly above the crowd, and they look pretty.

Y’all Birds, LLC is one of the presses affected by SPD’s closure…go help them and yourself out by purchasing these LOVELY poetry broadsides:

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Thank you so much, Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D., for this beautiful and generous blurb. I felt stunned when I read '... trembling in the silence, slow in the watching, rapt with awe.“ I greatly appreciate you for seeing my book this way.

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I kept looking around for spots to pull quote this morning, but really, it's the whole thing. Thank you, Rachel Edelman she/they, for this interview and for your book, Dear Memphis. Southern Review of Books River River Books 🌊🌊

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Free K. Iver echap on neurodivergent poetics were all of the exact words I didn't know I needed today.
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I have appeared to be, at certain points in time, a couplet girl but my soul is all tercets, all the time.

PEN America is a 43 million dollar non-profit.

“I forget Palestine

has a kind way of remembering
those who mark it for slaughter

and those it marks for life.”

—Fady Joudah

'I can only explain one thing by explaining everything – & this has perhaps made me philosopher & a novelist. The novel is the only art form where one can (try to) explain everything!'

April, 1977

I dipped my toe into the Bruegel's Icarus poem melee
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Jennifer A Sutherland brings us spring and several layers of art in “Postmodern Breugel’s Icarus Poem,” and an ekphrastic prompt! 🌊 Read both here: moistpoetryjournal.com/2024/04/15/pos… jsutherland.bsky.social

Strawberries, 1696. A little miracle of simplicity, for Adriaen Coorte's day.

Dawn in the fritillaries this morning

Look INVITATORY should be your preorder/must read/there is a hole in your life shaped like this book list!!!

Also reminds me of Toni Morrison’s RECITATIF in that the title invites your pause and consideration and not-knowing 💙